Helen’s been obsessing with her new iPod, and with iTunes. Her most recent delighted discovery has been how easy it is to make themed playlists using the iTunes search and filtering functions. In the case of her new Fibonacci Playlist, she had to go and buy an MP3 for number 34.

del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. A what? It’s kept me obsessively refreshing Sharpreader these past few weeks.

Once you’ve registered with del.icio.us you can add sites of interest to your list via a quick bookmarklet you’ve dragged onto your browser’s toolbar. The social thing comes from the fact you can see everyone else’s lists and can consume them as RSS feeds.

As Jo (Dr Cavagin), an colleague of Helen from the research unit at the Royal Holloway used to say, Shy bairns get nowt. So I asked a few psychologists if they’d help out with the Psychowiki and have the ok so far from the fantastic Prof Elizabeth Loftus, Prof Noam Chomsky and Prof Baron-Cohen, with the proviso that they’re all v. busy people.

After Helen noticed how high on Google we were for phrases like Freud is Rubbish (1st) and Zimbardo Milgram (1st) she decided we should use the placing responsibly. So we’re setting up a Psychology Wiki for her students.